[pydata-outreach-staff] Laptop setup guide, and questions

[Chang She]

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On Dec 11, 2012, at 5:24 PM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org> wrote:

> Hi Chang! Thanks for replying.
> 
> I wrote a draft of the Windows setup guide for the Pandas tutorial, which I placed here, before I saw your mail:
> 
> https://github.com/paulproteus/PyData-Workshop-Sprint/wiki/windows-install-pandas
> 
> If people already have Python installed, presumably they'll not be thrilled about installing a separate Python distribution from Enthought/Anaconda. I can see if it's easy to work both into the guide. I'll mull that over, and maybe try the installers and see how they work in conjunction with a Python installed from python.org.
> 

There are windows binaries of most of packages out there so it's more just a matter of going through and downloading/installing each one. For mac, some packages have eggs or dmg's but many will be built from source.

> You mentioned they're both free of cost; is http://www.enthought.com/products/epd_free.php the best link for that?

yes, also: http://continuum.io/downloads.html

EPD also gives academic access for EPD Full

> 
> Will your talk use ipython, and do you have bits that you'll ask people to try on their own machines? If so, then yeah, ipython for the morning does seem like a priority.

Yes, I will be using IPython notebook mostly to do the talk. Probably will have people try stuff on their own machines.

> 
> Similarly, can we skip the compilers stuff until the afternoon -- is the latest released pandas (for which they can install binaries) good enough for the tutorial?

Hmmm…I was planning to get people started developing on pandas stuff in the guided group work part of the morning session. 

> 
> I definitely want to write the instructions so no Googling is required, and that everything is pre-tested before-hand. My goal is that setup for Saturday morning should be simple, and that Saturday afternoon pre-sprint, post-lunch, it's okay to have some dedicated time to more complex setup tasks, like creating a Github account (which is why I want to move the compilers to the afternoon setup, if possible).



> 
> Let me know what you think of the above, if you have time! Thanks again for chiming in, and no prob if you don't; I'll try to make do.
> 
> -- Asheesh.
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